For the mathematical amongst you, here’s an equation worth remembering: The 70’s Rock Show = More great music than you can shake a stick at, guaranteed :-)

The first part of the show was all Beatles, with Paul McCartney, George Harrison, John Lennon & Ringo Starr all individually (with a guest appearance or two), then together with the marvellous “Across The Universe” & finally a cover of “Here Comes The Sun” from Steve Harley...

We had a trio of songs in a prog rock suite; some ELP, Camel & ELO, whose “Tightrope” was the first track from their album “A New World Record”. Other first tracks played on the show this week were David Essex (from his first album), Fairport Convention (from their fifth), Chicago (from their tenth) & Deep Purple (from their ninth)…

Some other numbers: Stevie Nicks took TEN minutes to write “Rhiannon”, “All Around My Hat” was actually TWO songs put together (with “Farewell He”), “Travellin’ Band” was a US number TWO & the 2nd of THREE double-sided singles released from “Cosmo’s Factory”, Smiley Lewis had a US number TWO hit with the original “I Hear You Knocking” in 1955, but Dave Edmunds took it to number ONE for Xmas in the UK in 1970, while the Alice Cooper album “Muscle Of Love” was less than FORTY minutes long...

Next week is a “Number Ones” special, where every track will be an as yet unplayed on this show top-seller, whether it be a UK single, US single, or album track. This will take us over the 600 tracks-played-so-far-without-repeats mark, but that’s about to change. Over the coming weeks we’ll have a special show playing all the show-openers so far, then a series of THREE shows playing the best stuff we’ve played in the last six months, which will be followed by a couple of shows where we’ll play 70’s rock songs that are featured in the “Guitar Hero” games…

The full playlist for this weeks show was as follows:

1

Paul McCartney & Wings

Venus And Mars - Rock Show

2

George Harrison

My Sweet Lord

3

John Lennon

Mother

4

Ringo Starr

Photograph

5

The Beatles

Across The Universe

6

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

Here Comes The Sun

7

Albert Hammond

It Never Rains In Southern California

8

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

The Gnome

9

Camel

Rain Dances

10

The Electric Light Orchestra

Tightrope

11

R. Dean Taylor

Gotta See Jane

12

Marianne Faithfull

The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan

13

Fleetwood Mac

Rhiannon

14

David Essex

Lamplight

15

Steeleye Span

All Around My Hat

16

Fairport Convention

Walk Awhile

17

Chicago

Once Or Twice

18

Argent

Keep On Rollin'

19

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Travelin' Band

20

Dave Edmunds

I Hear You Knocking

21

The Flying Lizards

Money (That's What I Want)

22

Deep Purple

Stormbringer

23

Black Sabbath

N.I.B.

24

Alice Cooper

Never Been Sold Before

25

AC/DC

Bad Boy Boogie

26

Kiss

Baby Driver

27

Kate Bush

Wow

28

Nick Drake

Pink Moon

29

Bob Dylan

Tangled Up In Blue

30

Eric Clapton

Promises

31

The Doors

Love Her Madly

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